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JETTABOY - October 14th, 2002 at 02:47 PM

JETTABOY - October 14th, 2002 at 02:50 PM

JETTABOY - October 14th, 2002 at 02:53 PM

vw54 - October 15th, 2002 at 07:57 AM

Great pics... whats the FB Holdens doing in the second shot ??

I see the Datos in the first pic must be around 69 or 70 according to the VW shells.

jenz58 - October 15th, 2002 at 10:37 AM

Excellent pics :thumb

Love black and white shots:)

KruizinKombi - October 19th, 2002 at 01:52 PM

Dave, I was thinking the same thing... How did Holdens and Datsuns come to be in the same factory as VWs?:o

vwrallycar - November 6th, 2002 at 09:12 PM

i believe that the datsuns also used the same vw colours

jenz58 - November 6th, 2002 at 09:23 PM

Had a Datsun 1600, it was an amazing little car, a real work horse. It did several trips into central and Nth Queensland towing a heavily laden trailer, long camping trips. Had a big roo take out our front lights going into Carnarvon Gorge at night. The family just grew too big for it :(

But then they just didn't have the character of a VW :)

Still love looking at black and white pics :thumb

Andy - November 6th, 2002 at 10:36 PM

In the late 60's early 70's before VW Aust. went belly up the factory was used to assemble a number of different cars Dato's being one of them. They also went back to CKD kits from germany, only minimal Aust. content. I can't remember the relationship, wether VW assembled cars for other makes, or they leased out building space they no longer needed?:cool:

vw54 - November 7th, 2002 at 06:59 AM

Those pics were on Ebay a few weeks ago, i bid but was not successful.:cry

jenz58 - November 7th, 2002 at 01:31 PM

Oh no! Was there the last minute bidding frenzy?:(

They would have been nice pics to have. Well someone must be happy.

The_Bronze. - November 14th, 2002 at 11:33 PM

Jen I didn't know you had been up in Queensland. I used to live just over an hour From Carnarvon and visited it frequently during school holidays. I was nearly cleaned up many a time by wallibies while on my KLR250 and later KLR600 going in and out of there. I was stuck in there for three days one time from an overnight storm which swelled the creek for days afterwards.

I love Black and White shots too. Sal takes some Magic B&W prints and develops them herself. Can't get her to take shots of the Baja though. Mutters somthing about time wasting.

graeme86 - December 7th, 2002 at 12:50 PM

A little known fact..this very factory is now used to assemble HSV Commodores!

Jay_1965vw - January 9th, 2003 at 08:00 AM

ehh?

I thought the factory was now the head offices of LINFOX or something like that?

Used to drive past it fairly often when Wolf was being restored in Clayton.


Jay

Dubless in Canada

vanderaj - January 9th, 2003 at 03:47 PM

I work in the grounds of this factory at my client (which Jay so kindly pointed out). It's a very large block, and I know that Linfox doesn't use all of it. Linfox use the bit to the side of Kombi Ave.

amazer - January 9th, 2003 at 07:52 PM

:o Theres a Kombi Ave. Umm jaaaay. You let me drive past kombi ave without taking a picture????

Jay_1965vw - January 10th, 2003 at 10:34 AM

doh. Sorry Chris. We may not have actually driven past it...

Next time you are down we will go have a look :)


Jay

JETTABOY - February 5th, 2003 at 02:35 PM

:thumb

amazer - February 5th, 2003 at 03:13 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by Jay_1965vw
doh. Sorry Chris. We may not have actually driven past it...

Next time you are down we will go have a look :)


Jay


but next time I am down I wont have a kombi to take a picture of. (dont know that I ever want to drive again after the hell trip last time) Will jusr have to steal the sign n bring it home with me. I'm sure its been done before. Council probably has a few spares made up already.